How YouTube's Algorithm Distorts Reality

Gillum Chastlow, an engineer whose expertise is in artificial intelligence, worked at Google for three years. He says the priorities YouTube gives its algorithms are dangerously skewed. Watch time was the priority; everything else was considered a distraction. In 2015, YouTube integrated Google Brain, a machine learning program, into its algorithm. It's why if you watch a Joe Rogan video, you'll start being recommended videos by Ben Shapiro or Paul Joseph Watson.